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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Have you ever wondered what happens when a boat sinks? If you’re like me, you’ve not given it much thought. Unfortunately for our neighbors, we got to find out. Last weekend we had tremendous rains and the next night there was a boat under the water in the canal.

Allen went over and asked if he could help, but they had already called a crane. How do you call a crane? Cranes are popular here. They are used for all kinds of things. When we first got here, they put trees all around this neighbor’s house by craning them across the canal. I’d show you, but they have 18 security cameras so I am thinking they are into privacy!?!

Gratuitous picture of the boys…

because I think they are cute…….

See that crane over there?

Then we had to wait a while they got their things set up.

See the guy in the black shirt? He is standing on the bottom of the boat. Also, note the neighborhood boys had to gather and direct operations.

Hooking up the straps.

There was a guy swimming under the boat with a mask on feeding the straps around. See how much the other boat is leaning. They had the sunk boat tied to that one. Engineers they weren’t.

Then the crane started lifting.

We were holding our breath (s) at this point.

So what do you do when a boat is upside down and you have to set it down?

Good question? I’ll just say what was done will never be put in any manuals of how to do it.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Just recently Jackson had been asking me why he didn’t have any cousins his age, and I didn’t have much to tell him. I remember wanting cousins when I was little, but all of mine were much older. Once we were in Middle school we got to visit our second cousins and we got to be close with them by visiting with them for many summers in Cape Cod. I’ve not seen those cousins in years so when I got a Facebook message from my cousin saying they were coming to our island for a visit, I was pretty happy about it. Even better he and his wife have a son who is 5 and a half and a little girl who is three. We were able to visit them twice that week and the boys were in hog heaven.

While the grown ups caught up on the last 10 years….

Jackson and RJ were fast friends!

Snacks and TV after a swim, the universal cure for tired kiddos!

3 boys looking in 3 directions. It’s a talent, I tell ya!

These were the only pictures I could get of Miller and Grace. It was too hard to get them in the same place at once, much less looking at the camera!

or in focus!

I’m really sorry that I didn’t get a picture of my cousin Rob’s sweet wife Irene. Those of us that take the pictures never make the pictures!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Yesterday we were having lunch on our patio, when Miller wandered onto the dock and screamed “Look Mom it’s a STINGRAY!” I was a little slow getting up and getting up over there, and lo and behold there was not one stingray, but two. They even hung around long enough for me to get my camera. Usually, they are really shy, but not these two. They put up with all the shouting and jumping up and down.

Did you know?

Adventures with the Bug and the Butterbean began in 2008 as a way to record some of our day to day experiences and keep our scattered friends and family plugged in to little bits of our life.
Since then we have moved to an island in the Caribbean and have had more “adventures” than I ever imagined when I named the blog.